So I'm sitting here monitoring the server, and it screeches to a halt, just like that. And I take a look, and we have 179 incoming trackbacks. So I kill them all, and check again, and there are another 185 of the little bastards.
So trackbacks will be disabled for a few minutes while I get it sorted out.
Update: Looks like it's a new Denial of Service attack aimed specifically at MT. Working now to block it at the web server.
Update: Over 22,000 trackbacks in the past hour. Bloody hell.
Update: Blocked for now, I think.
Posted by Pixy Misa at February 1, 2005 12:51 PMOh, and we blocked over 150,000 spam comments in the month of January. I'm not sure of the exact number because the log file blew up and I had to delete it.
Posted by Pixy Misa at February 2, 2005 05:11 AM